Catherine Farish

From Tuesday December 12 to Saturday January 27, 2024

Opening reception Wednesday December 13 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

The work of Catherine Farish has been described as emotionally sophisticated and provocative. Her large mixed media works on paper form lyrical abstractions which are both sensitive and innovative. Her intuitive approach is guided by a dialogue with the materials and a sensitivity to the physical characteristics of each technique.

Farish received a diploma from the Montreal Museum School of Fine Arts and her BFA from Concordia University. She went on to study with a master printer in the French tradition of printmaking. She has spent the last twenty-five years experimenting and developing her own techniques. Catherine Farish has shown extensively in Europe, Canada, the United States, Mexico and Asia with over forty solo exhibitions and her work can be seen in many collections.

Awards include the Grand Prize for Printmaking in Québec, the Acquisition Award from the City of Montreal, the Material Award in the Boston Printmakers Exhibition and several grants, including a residency at the International Art Festival in Asilah Morocco. In 2008 she was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts. In 2010 she was awarded a grant from the Quebec Council of Arts and Letters as well as a residency fellowship at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ireland. In 2013 Farish was selected for two public works projects under the Intergration of Art and Architecture Program for the Quebec Government.

Farish is a founding member of Atelier Circulaire, an artist-run printmaking facility. She presently lives and works just outside Montreal.

IFPDA FINE ART PRINT FAIR

We are pleased to participate in the IFPDA Fair to the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City this fall.

Francine Simonin

Exhibition from Tuesday October 17 to Saturday November 18, 2023

Opening reception Saturday November 4 at 2:30 p.m.

Born in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1936, Francine Simonin has been working and living in Montreal since 1968. Her career spans four decades and she has had over 200 solo exhibits. She has also received many prizes and awards.

In 2004, the Musée National des Beaux Arts du Québec and the Monique and Robert Parizeau foundation gave her a prize to acknowledge and reward her contribution to the history of printmaking in Quebec. Her works are part of numerous public collections in Canada and Switzerland as well as many private collections around the world.

The Journées de la culture

From Friday September 29 to Sunday October 1, 2023

Initiated and coordinated by Culture pour tous, the Journées de la culture are free activities open to everyone that promote greater access for the public to arts and culture. As proclaimed by the National Assembly, the event takes place every year across Quebec on the last Friday of September and the two days thereafter.

GUILD OF BOOK WORKERS

From Wednesday September 27 to Sunday September 30, 2023

Atelier-Galerie A.Piroir is pleased to participate in the Guild of Book Workers Standards of Excellence Seminar in San Francisco, California.

From Friday September 22 to Sunday September 24, 2023

This Fair is one of high standards: all exhibitors, without exception, in the “Rare Books” section are members of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers and affiliated, for French exhibitors, with the Syndicat de la Librairie Ancienne et Moderne (SLAM): this century-old professional association brings together the best specialists in the field of antiquarian and collectible books, obeying a strict code of ethics and offering collectors and enthusiasts the best guarantees of authenticity and the best possible expertise in their fields. Of the 230 members, nearly half will be present for the most beautiful event of its kind in France and one of the most important in the world, highlighting the exceptional cultural heritage of our collective memory, following the traces left by the human mind over the centuries, from the oldest works dating back to the first books to the contemporary avant-garde pieces.

International Rare Book & Graphic Arts Fair

Under the high patronage of Mr. Emmanuel MACRON, President of the French Republic.

Frédéric Cordier

From Tuesday September 5 to Saturday October 7, 2023

Frédéric Cordier's work embodies a (post-)industrial imagination centered on fast food, factories or drilling rigs. His “vedute,” as he calls them, do not awe-inspire romantic 19th-century visions of blast furnaces depicted as steel monsters violating nature. Cordier's frontal landscapes are imbued with objectivity, even if his engravings schematize reality or are pure "caprices". Franz Gertsch started painting from photographs to free himself from his sentimentality. Similarly, Cordier's engravings, as well as his ink drawings, paintings on perforated sheets and printed wallpapers seem to be reduced to the format of the bitmap image, either in black or, more rarely, in blue or white. . A binary aesthetic reinforced in his linocuts by the composition of his scenes with geometric shapes or segments that seem to have come out of the toolbox of drawing software. Whether figurative or abstract, his works are composed of repeating patterns that function as analog visualizations of our digital culture.

In today's world of ubiquitous images, the sacred resides in the impalpable code. Each viewing of these digital coordinates on a screen is a generation that desecrates this absent original. Cordier, whose paintings on metal are inspired by repetitive and iconoclastic Islamic art, plays with these polarities of the sacred and the profane. His work demonstrates a fascination with the divine perfection of mass production. But it is through meticulous work using scissors, knives, pens and other tools that he seeks to imitate this standardization. The deliberate addition of errors or the dissolution of the motif is less reminiscent of a form of subjectivity permeating the works than of digital filters or algorithms applied to the image to disaggregate it. Through his extensive manual work, Cordier pays homage to the mechanized and digitized world, while emphasizing its hollowness which can only be remedied by his action on materials.

Frédéric Cordier is a Swiss-Canadian artist born in Montreal in 1985. He lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland and in Montreal, Canada. He holds a BFA from the Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne (ecal).

Sylvain Menétrey, 2020

Celine Huyghebaert

Atelier-Galerie A. Piroir Prize

IN COLLABORATION WITH

LA BIENNALE INTERNATIONALE D’ESTAMPE CONTEMPORAINE DE TROIS-RIVIÈRES

From Tuesday 25 July to Saturday 2 September 2023

Opening on Thursday, July 27th from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM.

Closing on Thursday, August 31st from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM.

From Céline Huyghebaert, I am interested in the meeting points between visual arts and literature through writing, publication, exhibition and collaboration projects. I use a variety of techniques to tell stories at the crossroads of documentary and fiction: traditional and digital printing processes, writing, editing, but also more sociological tools such as investigation, interview or archival research. I am particularly interested in poor materials and collaborative gestures.

In 2019, I received the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art for my artistic practice and the Governor General's Literary Award for Le drap blanc (Le Quartanier). I obtained a master's degree in literature and a doctorate in visual arts at UQAM. I am starting a postdoctoral fellowship on interdisciplinary writing and the invisibility of sick bodies between Quebec and France.

ARTIST BOOK EXHIBITION

“THREE CONVERSATIONS”

From Tuesday July 11 to Saturday July 22.

Launch Saturday July 15 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

It is with great pride that we announce that our artist’s book project has been selected as part of Dialogues: Encounters with Riopelle’s oeuvre from Sea to Sea. It will be an honour to accomplish it alongside the Riopelle Foundation and its partner, Culture Pour Tous. On the eve of the celebrations surrounding the centenary of the Canadian a rtist Jean Paul Riopelle, we are thus part of a major pan-Canadian cultural mediation project made possible by Jean Paul Riopelle Foundation in partnership with Culture pour tous, and the financial support of the Government of Canada.

SUMMARY OF THE PROJET “THREE CONVERSATIONS”

This project aims at creating a dialogue between poetry and visual art, materialized in an artist’s book on the themes of nature, indigeneity and migration explored by Jean Paul Riopelle in his lifetime. Under the leadership of Agathe Piroir, this project brings together Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, Quebec and Saskatchewan through artists Hélène Dorion, Joséphine Bacon, Chantal Ringuet, Jamasee Pitseolak, Peter Krausz, Catherine Farish, Olivier Bodart and Monique Martin. Each artist will meet with citizens in his or her province or territory around themes dear to Riopelle. All the prints and poems will be exclusive and available in limited edition. This work will be exhibited in several places: at Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ), at the Musée des métiers d’art du Québec, at the Atelier-Galerie A. Piroir, as well as at the Biennale internationale d’estampe contemporaine in Trois-Rivières.

Le Musée des métiers d'art du Québec

EXHIBITION

“THREE CONVERSATIONS”

From June 15 to July 15

PRESENTATION july 8

615, avenue Sainte-Croix
Borough of Saint-Laurent, Montréal, Qc, H4L 3X6

**La Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec**
PRESENTATION
“THREE CONVERSATIONS”
June 22,
(Rosemont site)
2275, rue Holt, Montréal (Québec)
H2G 3H1

Reservation june 22 , 6.p.m

La Biennale Internationale d'Estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivières

EXHIBITION AT THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS-RIVIÈRES OF “THREE INTERVIEWS”

FROM THURSDAY 29 JUNE TO 10 AUGUST

PRESENTATION ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 5 AT 10:30 A.M. AT THE UQTR LIBRARY AT THE SALON ALEXIS KLIMOV

3351 BOULEVARD DES FORGES, TROIS-RIVIERES

JEAN PAUL RIOPELLE

From Tuesday 20 June to Saturday 8 July, 2023

opening on Wednesday June 28 at 5:30 p.m.

biography

Jean Paul Riopelle was born in Montreal in 1923. After studying al the École Polytechnique and the Montreal Fumiture School, he joined the Automatistes group alongside Paul-Émile Borduas and co-signed the Refus global in 1948. That same year, he moved to Paris where he lived for many years.

ln the early 1950s his large mosaic paintings painted with a spatula earned him a resounding success. From then on, the artist will not cease to accumulate the marks of recognition: in addition to several prestigious prizes, several museums dedicate him great retrospective exhibitions as of 1967. The considerable work of Jean-Paul Riopelle counts paintings, drawings, sculptures and engravings. Jean-Paul Riopelle died in Isle-aux-Grues, Quebec, in 2002.

**JEAN-PAUL RIOPELLE**, *LES MOUCHES À MARIER*, 1985, PORTFOLIO OF EIGHT ETCHINGS, 50 X 66.5 CM,
DANIEL LELONG PUBLISHER, **© ESTATE OF JEAN-PAUL RIOPELLE / SOCAN (2020)**
PHOTO : MARCELO TROCHE

PRINT FESTIVAL

Friday, May 26, 2023 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Since 2013, Manifestampe-Fédération nationale de l’estampe has organized the annual Print Festival.

In May 2023, the 11th edition will take place. Exhibitions, open doors for workshops, courses, conferences, etc. are organized throughout France, Europe and beyond.

Christine Vandrisse

From Tuesday 9 May to Saturday 10 June 2023

Opening Saturday May 13 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Emerence Editions

BIOGRAPHY:

Christine Vandrisse, born on July 11, 1959 in Lille, in northern France, lives and works in Lys-lez-Lannoy, in the same region. A self-taught artist, after many years in the trade, she created Les Editions d'Emérence in 2011.

For eight years, she led a workshop on bookbinding, Colophon & Filigrane, in Wasquehal, France. The workshop has had three collective participations in Lille art Up, the largest contemporary art fair in northern Paris.

Christine Vandrisse has had multiple international selections at printmaking biennials. Her books are now part of public collections in France and Belgium. She has been a member of the Fondation Taylor in Paris since 2006 and of ADAGP Paris since 2009. She has received numerous awards including Labels Lille 2004 (France) and Mons 2015 (Belgium).

TEXT OF INTENTION:

In her work, whether through direct or indirect carving, Vandrisse aims to bring out the expression of the material. Her gesture is intended to provoke accidents that will guide her future path. The mechanical or chemical action will reveal the common intentions of zinc and her hands guided by the brain. Writing then emerges from spontaneity and the unexpected, in perpetual search.

JEAN DESY AND HELENE LATULIPPE

From Tuesday 11 April to Saturday 29 April 2023

Opening Saturday April 15 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

ARTIST BOOK

Jean Désy is a poet. He teaches at Laval University in literature and medicine. His passions have been Nordic for much of his life. He still practices medicine as a convenience store on the North Shore and in Nunavik. Among his latest publications, an essay entitled "To be and not to be", about contemporary Inuit life, published by XYZ, in March 2019, another essay entitled "L'irrationalité necessary", published by XYZ in September 2020 , a story-poem entitled "No, I will not die", published by Éditions Mémoire d'encrier in January 2021 and finally an essay entitled "We are poetry", published in January 2022 by XYZ and made up of interviews with thirty- a poets and artists.

From Hélène Latulippe: industrial design and visual arts allow me to counterbalance chaos by creating a harmonious and calm environment. The straight line, as used in design and advocated by Kandinsky in arts, becomes my antidote against confusion.

I treat landscape in a distinctive way and I adapt the technique of traditional printmaking. I plunge into a specific environment in order to feel its flow of sensations. This experience finds its tangible form on linocuts with regular abstract motives repeated on different materials.

I invite the spectator to experience the tranquility of the landscape by observing at the topography of my work. To each, may discover a secret and imagine a meaning.

PROGRAMMATION 2023

We wish to thank the Canada Council for the Arts for its support for international reach as Contemporary Art Dealer.

RENéE GÉLINAS EXHIBITION

From Tuesday 7 February to Saturday 11 March 2023

Opening Saturday February 11 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

and meeting with the artist on Saturday February 25 and March 11 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

DERIVATIONS

Renée Gélinas presents Dérivations, a series of prints produced in lithography on stone and in relief on wood grain or linoleum.

In her abstract compositions, the artist continues to create patterns that constitute the shapes/words of her vocabulary - sticks, stripes, capsules, spirals - which, when assembled, will form a visual poem. These constructions resulting from a non-linear composition process are deliberately devoid of perspective, meaning and symbols.

The dies of the prints are recycled until exhaustion, by the size of savings in reduction, the cutting or the transfer. The artist takes several means to multiply their use: they are either combined and/or alternated from one image to another; the different color passages are sometimes made using different printing techniques; the conservation of a motif remaining on the matrix - in savings size or in drawing on the lithographic stone - can also become the start of a new work.

This use of the recycling of the same forms/words shows through in the series in such a way that these become recognised, familiar, transformed. As one can feel by seeing them juxtaposed that the works are derived from each other, these "derivations" allow visitors an incursion into the process of creation of images by the artist.

Renée Gélinas is a painter and engraver. She is a member of Atelier Circulaire and of Xylon-Québec. Her works are part of several private collections, the Loto-Québec Collection and the Banque et Archives Nationales du Québec. They have been presented solo in Montreal, La Sarre, Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Verdun, Sutton, Toronto, and in numerous group exhibitions in Quebec, Canada and abroad.

CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY PRINT MEDIA DEPARTMENT

From Tuesday 21 March to Saturday 1 April 2023

Opening Saturday March 25 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

A STUDENT GROUP EXHIBITION FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF PRINTMAKING AT CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY.

These students form group at Concordia University and will be presenting artworks resulting from their research with Stephanie Russ within courses at Concordia.

Saturday February 18, 2023 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

at the Circular Workshop

at 5445 de Gaspé, 5th local 517, Montreal, H2B 3B2

In the printer's lair

Danielle Blouin, The smell of shared ink

René Donais, Engraving in the crosshairs of the printer

Agathe Piroir, The practice of master printer

Symposium: in brief

The symposium is organized by two professors from UQAM — Peggy Davis from the Department of Art History and Nicole Milette from the School of Design.

It brings together some thirty stakeholders from the fields of research and practice in art history, graphic and printing arts and museology, in order to reflect, from a historical and interdisciplinary perspective, on the current issues of prints and printed culture.

The event takes place over three days in person,

by reservation only

But also offers online access.

Information : colloque.dumouchel@gmail.com.

presentation of the artists’ book

“three conversations”

June 22 2022 at 6pm

2275 rue Holt, Montréal, Québec. H2G 3H1

Speech by Mrs. Manon Gauthier, Executive Director of the Jean Paul Riopelle Foundation and General Commissioner of the Centennial Celebrations, as well as Mr. Michel Vallée, President and CEO of Culture pour tous.

Presence of the poet Hélène Dorion and the artists Olivier Bodart, Catherine Farish and Peter Krausz as well as the translator Jonathan Kaplansky.

summary of “THree conversations”

Le Musée des métiers d'art du Québec

Exposition de “Trois entretiens”

Du 15 juin au 15 juillet, rencontre le samedi 8 juillet au

615, avenue Sainte-Croix
arrondissement de Saint-Laurent
Montréal, Qc, H4L 3X6

**La Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec** Rencontre de “Trois entretiens”
Le 22 juin 2022
(Site Rosemont)
2275, rue Holt, Montréal (Québec) H2G 3H1

La Biennale Internationale d'Estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivières EXPOSITION À LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE L’UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS-RIVIÈRES DE “TROIS ENTRETIENS”,

DU JEUDI 29 JUIN AU 10 AOÛT, rencontre LE MERCREDI 5 JUILLET À 10H30, À LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE L’UQTR AU SALON ALEXIS KLIMOV,

3351 BOULEVARD DES FORGES, TROIS-RIVIÈRES

exhibition of the artists’ book

“Three conversations”

On now until July 15

615, ave Sainte-Croix, Montréal, Québec. H4L 3X6

Presentation at 2pm on Wednesday, July 8 at MUMAQ

Summary of “Three conversations”

Le Musée des métiers d'art du Québec

Exposition de “Trois entretiens”

Du 15 juin au 15 juillet, rencontre le samedi 8 juillet au

615, avenue Sainte-Croix
arrondissement de Saint-Laurent
Montréal, Qc, H4L 3X6

La Biennale Internationale d'Estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivières EXPOSITION À LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE L’UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS-RIVIÈRES DE “TROIS ENTRETIENS”,

DU JEUDI 29 JUIN AU 10 AOÛT, rencontre LE MERCREDI 5 JUILLET À 10H30, À LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE L’UQTR AU SALON ALEXIS KLIMOV,

3351 BOULEVARD DES FORGES, TROIS-RIVIÈRES